U+11FF1 "ð‘¿±" Tamil Sign Vakaiyaraa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘¿±
U+11FF1 "ð‘¿±" Tamil Sign Vakaiyaraa is a historic numeral symbol used in the Tamil script to represent the number ten, specifically within the context of ancient Tamil accounting and land measurement systems. It functions as a distinct sign for the digit 10, often appearing in inscriptions and manuscripts dealing with financial or agrarian records, where it served to mark the value of ten units, such as in calculations of produce or land area. This character is part of the Tamil Supplement Unicode block and reflects the intricate numeric notation system developed in Tamil Nadu for commercial and administrative documentation before the widespread adoption of modern decimal numerals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FF1 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Sign Vakaiyaraa |
| Block | Tamil Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑿱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑿱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xBF 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFF1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FF1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udff1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Tamil |
| Script Extensions | Tamil |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |